Playback problems

Xvid playback with ffdshow and ZoomPlayer/WMPClassic works perfect when they are used correctly. In ffdshow go to misc settings and check xvid but I don't think thats causing your problem. BTW do you have enough CPU power for playback?

I have been trying more tests. I am talking about zoom player and ffdshow here. I tried the ICT xvid in Misc settings but that didn't help. Maybe I am being very picky about this. In fast moving scenes you can notice like "black curtains" that fall very quickly refreshing the screen, it's not unbearable but it's noticiable. I found that you can notice it too at real size not only full screen, only that in full screen is more noticiable. Anyway, during some test I could see video information in the ffdshow configuration while the video was playing. This didn't happen all the time though and now I can't make it happen again (I reinstalled and everything). That would give me information about the fps the movie plays back at. Maybe this codec is too cpu intensive. I have tried all flavours of mpeg and divx before and playback performance was never an issue. Clairvo

Gazza, it's true !! Bsplayer plays flawlessly smooth. Same codecs, same video, same everything and it plays more smoothly than the rest.... even with tmpgenc working in the background, it seems it is not so much about raw cpu power but how this player does it. Thank you :=) This will be my player of choice for xvid.